Does Yale not even have a status checker? Are they that much of a black box? 'Cause the What to Expect thread had nada info.

Asha Rangappa, YLS Associate Dean / Former G-(Wo)man wrote:As some of you start getting antsy awaiting a decision as the end of admissions season approaches, you might have read my first BIJ post from last year, which exhorted you not to call or write to check on your status. I was admittedly grumpy in my second trimester (perpetual nausea will do that to you), and while most of you appreciated, and even found solace in, my tongue-in-cheek humor, it's probably worthwhile giving a more lucid explanation for why status checks don't jive with our admissions process.

Simply put, we only have two statuses (statii?) for applicants: Under Review and [insert your final decision here]. I've detailed how our admissions process works elsewhere, but suffice it to say that if you haven't heard from us, your file is in the pipeline somewhere, being read by someone (a.k.a. Under Review). We can't give more detail than that, so a call or email really just results in frustration for all parties involved since we don't have much to tell you.

That being said, there are plenty of schools whose application-assessment processes don't jive with status checkers and update them perhaps once in the entire cycle (Columbia, UVA, Stanford, and so on), but still provide the tool to placate the neurotics.

For people that have completed (or are in the process of completing) the app, how long is your attachment about college activities (and post-college employment)? For the college activities, I'm assuming sections a, b, and c, are all in one document?

wtrc wrote:For people that have completed (or are in the process of completing) the app, how long is your attachment about college activities (and post-college employment)? For the college activities, I'm assuming sections a, b, and c, are all in one document?

Mine was a page singe spaced. I just took my resume sections that were applicable for a and expanded on them a bit and then answered b and c in a few sentences (but I didn't have all that much work experience, and none of it was paid so it could have gone longer).

Edit: post college was also a page, single spaced. I did the same thing like in a

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The-Specs wrote:My understanding was that the professor received 60 applications and graded them in thirds: Top third gets 4s, middle third 3s, bottom third 2s.

From the blog:

Asha wrote:We are very fortunate to have many more people who fit the above criteria than we have room for in the incoming class. To this end, I send about 25% of our applicant pool -- close to 1,000 files -- to our faculty "Committees." At this stage, each application is sent, in a stack of about 50 files, to three faculty readers. Each faculty member uses his or her own criteria to rate each file on a scale of 2-4, with 4 being the highest. Each faculty member reads independently -- that is, the faculty member does not know who the other two readers of the file will be and so there is no discussion of the files with other people --and his or her scores are kept confidential from the other readers.Once the application is circulated through the three readers, we add up the scores in the Admissions Office. All applicants who receive a 12 (straight 4s) and most who receive an 11 (two 4s and a 3) are admitted.

The-Specs wrote:My understanding was that the professor received 60 applications and graded them in thirds: Top third gets 4s, middle third 3s, bottom third 2s.

From the blog:

Asha wrote:We are very fortunate to have many more people who fit the above criteria than we have room for in the incoming class. To this end, I send about 25% of our applicant pool -- close to 1,000 files -- to our faculty "Committees." At this stage, each application is sent, in a stack of about 50 files, to three faculty readers. Each faculty member uses his or her own criteria to rate each file on a scale of 2-4, with 4 being the highest. Each faculty member reads independently -- that is, the faculty member does not know who the other two readers of the file will be and so there is no discussion of the files with other people --and his or her scores are kept confidential from the other readers.Once the application is circulated through the three readers, we add up the scores in the Admissions Office. All applicants who receive a 12 (straight 4s) and most who receive an 11 (two 4s and a 3) are admitted.

Sounds like absolute to me.

From an info session with Asha, I remember her saying that she puts restrictions on the number of 4s, 3s and 2s that can be given for each group of apps that the professors receive.

The-Specs wrote:My understanding was that the professor received 60 applications and graded them in thirds: Top third gets 4s, middle third 3s, bottom third 2s.

From the blog:

Asha wrote:We are very fortunate to have many more people who fit the above criteria than we have room for in the incoming class. To this end, I send about 25% of our applicant pool -- close to 1,000 files -- to our faculty "Committees." At this stage, each application is sent, in a stack of about 50 files, to three faculty readers. Each faculty member uses his or her own criteria to rate each file on a scale of 2-4, with 4 being the highest. Each faculty member reads independently -- that is, the faculty member does not know who the other two readers of the file will be and so there is no discussion of the files with other people --and his or her scores are kept confidential from the other readers.Once the application is circulated through the three readers, we add up the scores in the Admissions Office. All applicants who receive a 12 (straight 4s) and most who receive an 11 (two 4s and a 3) are admitted.

Sounds like absolute to me.

From an info session with Asha, I remember her saying that she puts restrictions on the number of 4s, 3s and 2s that can be given for each group of apps that the professors receive.

So, it is some kind of hybrid then? I bet those restictions make for some intersting deliberations,

The-Specs wrote:My understanding was that the professor received 60 applications and graded them in thirds: Top third gets 4s, middle third 3s, bottom third 2s.

From the blog:

Asha wrote:We are very fortunate to have many more people who fit the above criteria than we have room for in the incoming class. To this end, I send about 25% of our applicant pool -- close to 1,000 files -- to our faculty "Committees." At this stage, each application is sent, in a stack of about 50 files, to three faculty readers. Each faculty member uses his or her own criteria to rate each file on a scale of 2-4, with 4 being the highest. Each faculty member reads independently -- that is, the faculty member does not know who the other two readers of the file will be and so there is no discussion of the files with other people --and his or her scores are kept confidential from the other readers.Once the application is circulated through the three readers, we add up the scores in the Admissions Office. All applicants who receive a 12 (straight 4s) and most who receive an 11 (two 4s and a 3) are admitted.

Sounds like absolute to me.

From an info session with Asha, I remember her saying that she puts restrictions on the number of 4s, 3s and 2s that can be given for each group of apps that the professors receive.

Huh, that's interesting, thanks!

I guess it's kind of necessary, to impose some degree of uniformity on the process, but it's definitely not clear from the blog post quoted above (which was what I read a while ago and was basing my recollection on).